Diwali Celebrations
The children at Aston hall celebrated Diwali by making and painting dots lamps and creating Rangoli patterns. They learnt all about Diwali and how it is celebrated around the world.
Aston Hall Cross Stitch Club
Mrs Wall’s macramé and cross stitch club is back this half term and the children are starting off by working on a cross stitch Christmas tree. This is a new skill for some of the group and they are trying really hard to master the technique. We can’t wait to see how they look!
November Careers – Art & Design – WPT Media Team Visit Aston Hall
As part of our Careers Curriculum, we welcomed part of the Media Team from our school Trust to school for a special assembly. Each month we have a focus subject as part of our Careers Curriculum, with November being Art & Design. The WPT Media Team is made up of many different specialties including websites, […]
Healthy Eating with Y1AP
As part of our recent DT project, Year 1 designed and planned a healthy wrap. We learnt about the different food groups and how we can make it balanced and healthy. We interviewed our friend to find out what they like to eat. Then we learnt the “bridge” and “claw” method to help us chop […]
Rotherham School Games Boys Hockey Tournament
On Tues 21st Nov, some of our Y5/6 boys children took part in the Rotherham School Games Hockey Tournament. Out of 16 schools, Aston Hall narrowly missed out on qualifying for the South Yorkshire finals by finishing 2nd. Winning 5 of their 7 matches and only conceding 3 goals across all games, they did incredibly […]
Aston Hall pupils visit ‘Museum of the Moon’ as part of Rotherham Children’s Capital of Culture
In 2025, Rotherham will become the world’s first Children’s Capital of Culture, designed and delivered by children and young people from across the borough. A few children from each of the WPT Primary schools were selected to visit Rotherham Minster this week to take part in a creative workshop linked to Luke Jerram’s ‘Museum of […]
World Children’s Day
Earlier this week, we participated in a ‘live’ assembly to celebrate World Children’s Day. 🌎 This exciting opportunity was hosted by the Sanctuary Foundation to over 500 schools simultaneously. The assembly explored why it is important for children to raise their voices on issues that matter to them. Our pupils also discovered what life is […]
Subtraction Intro
Column addition is now cracked, and let’s now flip the method . Instead of increasing the number, let’s decrease the number by using subtraction. Y3/4 love a practical Maths lesson by slightly tweaking the column addition method by removing the counters they were able to work systematically to complete the challenging subtraction questions…tomorrow we lose […]
Odd Socks Day for Anti-Bullying
On Mon 13th November, pupils and staff at Aston Hall celebrated the start of Anti-Bullying Week 2023 with our annual ‘Odd Socks Day’. Children took part in a range of anti-bullying activities from the anti-bullying alliance as we explored this year’s theme of ‘Make a noise about bullying’. We discussed in assembly the purpose and […]
WMIM and Anti Bullying
We had a visitor last week from WMIM who held a corridor workshop for children to drop in and see the newly appointed ambassadors. They created displays and the ambassadors gave sheets out for colouring and kindness bingo around the school playground.
